2022/23 GRADUATE PROSPECTUS - A Platform for Nurturing Future Leaders
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GRADUATE
PROSPECTUS
Taipei
School of
2022/23
Economics and
Political Science
A Platform for Nurturing Future Leaders
A Platform for Nurturing Future Leaders Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (TSE) is the place for people with ambitions to make real-world impacts from academic research, and become future leaders in addressing the economic, social, environmental, and public health challenges facing society today.
KEY FEATURES
Official Language: English
ABOUT US International Faculty
Founded in August 2020 as the 11th college of National Independent
Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan’s top-ranked and Financial Resources
most diverse universities
Autonomy in Recruitment
Supported by an endowment from the TSE Foundation
Supported by the resources and connections of NTHU University-Industry
Collaboration
A wellspring of ideas for improving the world
Interdisciplinary Research
We aim to generate knowledge for coping with challenges that
human societies are facing in the 21st Century.
An intellectual hub where East meets West
TSE is poised to create a regional intellectual hub where
international researchers from multiple social science
disciplines come together to exchange views, develop unique
methodologies, and develop their own synthetic thinking.
A commitment to sustainable development
We will focus our research and training on key issues related to
sustainable development, such as inclusive growth, social
justice, good governance, public health, financial stability,
regional integration and global governance.
MASTER'S PROGRAM IN OUR FACULTY
POLITICAL ECONOMY TSE’s courses are taught by
internationally-renowned scholars
in the field and experts with
TSE’s Master program helps students to gain extensive
experience in policy making in
knowledge of the dynamics of the Asian economies and the
different parts of Asia.
key trends underlying the global political economy and its
transformation. AMITAV ACHARYA
Distinguished Professor,
American University
English-based, 2-year Degree Program
Offering 3 specializations: Asian Political Economy (MAPE) / TAIN-JY CHEN
Global Political Economy and Asia (MGPEA) / Economic Professor,
Taipei School of Economics &
Development (MED)
Political Science
SOLID TRAINING IN POLICY ANALYSIS YUN-HAN CHU
Academician,
Students will be trained to analyze economic issues in their
Academia Sinica
cultural, social and political contexts and from a variety of
perspectives. JULIA STRAUSS
Professor,
University of London
EXECUTE CASE STUDIES IN PRACTICE
At TSE, students have the option to complete summer YVES TIBERGHIEN
internships, as a replacement for some elective requirements Professor,
University of British Columbia
of the program. We also encourage our graduate students to
have more exposure to the real-world practices during their YU-SHAN WU
M.A. thesis-writing stage and apply case-study methodology Academician,
Academia Sinica
whenever it is useful and preferable.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPING A GLOBAL VIEW WITH
AN ASIA FOCUS
TSE’s M.A. Program will place a special
emphasis on a synergistic framework The world order, both economic and political, is gradually shifting
for career placement, coaching, and toward Asia. Instead of taking a traditional western-centric
opportunities. perspective, TSE emphasizes in training students to develop a global
view with an Asia focus. The M.A. program offers 3 areas of
TRAINING, CONFERENCES AND specialization.
FIELDTRIPS
Regularly held events including: ASIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY (MAPE)
Guest speaking sessions Our MAPE specialization provides a historically grounded, multi-
Consultation fairs disciplinary analysis of Asia’s phenomenal economic transformation
Career advancement training events and significant political changes. The specialization places its
emphasis on domestic structural changes, institutional development,
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES and national strategies for economic growth, social protection, and
TSE will partner with local and regional employers sustainable development through the lens of an evolving state-
(across sectors) to provide new projects and market relationship.
internships annually.
GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ASIA (MGPEA)
CAREER ADVISORY OFFICE The MGPEA specialization offers a distinctive approach to the study
The Career Advisory Office will provide consultation of global political economy by focusing on Asia’s rising economic
and resources for:
position and some key questions in different domains, including
Creating professional goals
trade and investment, international finance, global supply chains,
Employment opportunities
technological innovation and diffusion, global governance,
Building connections to partner institutions and
competition, and international security.
affiliated employers
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (MED)
ALUMNI NETWORK
The MED specialization is a theory-based, policy-oriented study on
TSE’s graduates can benefit from the existing
economic development, drawing from the experience, mainly but not
extensive alumni network that generations of
exclusively, of Japan, Four East Asian tigers (Korea, Taiwan, Hong
NTHU’s graduates have built up, especially in the
Kong, Singapore), China, and India. Our courses cover both
high-tech industry, public sectors and academic
community around the world. theoretical foundation of the policy and its actual implementation.
Country experts are invited to give lectures on specific policy fields to
provide visions of policy in action.
'A wellspring
of ideas for
improving the
world'
FALL 2022 ADMISSION
TSE’s degree programs welcome applicants from all over the world, especially students who plan to
pursue a career in public and international affairs or be better prepared for near-future Ph.D. training
and an academic career later on.
KEY DATES ENTRY REQUIREMENTS TUITION
A bachelor’s degree NT$ 540,000 (around US$ 18,000)
Fall Semester Start Date:
Official transcript
SEPTEMBER 2022
Statement of purpose FINANCIAL AID
Two recommendation letters Full scholarship
International Applications Open:
English language requirements Full tuition waiver and
1 NOVEMBER 2021
(IELTS 6.5/ TOEFL iBT 92) teaching/research assistantship,
Personal profile form which carries a monthly stipend
Domestic Applications Open:
Financial certificate of NT$18,000 (around US$7,200
29 NOVEMBER 2021
Additional supporting per year) and no more than 15
documents hours of work each week
Half scholarship
Full tuition waiver
LEARNING AT NTHU
Founded in 1911, the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) is
a comprehensive university with many years of experience in
interdisciplinary research and education. NTHU is also the only
university in Taiwan that has nurtured 3 Nobel Prize winners.
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
NTHU has 20 years of experience in multifaceted teaching, and
20% of NTHU’s graduates have double expertise. NTHU is known
for its interdisciplinary research in areas including:
Artificial Intelligence
Information and Communication Media
Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
Technology Management
LIVING IN HSINCHU
Hsinchu is a vibrant high-tech hub in northern Taiwan.
30 minutes by high-speed rail to Taipei
Joint 72th place (with St. Petersburg) in the QS Best
Student Cities Ranking (2022)
Home of 5 Universities, of which 2 are ranked in the top 300
of QS World University Rankings (2022)
50% OF TAIWAN’S GDP
The high-tech corridor between Taipei and Hsinchu accounts for
more than half of Taiwan’s GDP.
400+ HIGH-TECH COMPANIES
Hsinchu has attracted more than 400 high-tech companies to the Hsinchu Science Park,
mainly involved in the semiconductor, computer, telecommunication, and
optoelectronics industries.
HEADQUARTERS OF FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 COMPANIES
The high-tech corridor between Taipei and Hsinchu houses the headquarters of
many Fortune Global 500 companies, such as Foxconn, Pegatron, TSMC, Quanta
Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron.
‘THE SILICON VALLEY OF TAIWAN’
CONTACT US
ADDRESS
Taipei School of Economics
and Political Science
National Tsing Hua University
Innovative Incubation Center 2F
101 Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road
Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan
TEL +886-3-5743090
FAX +886-3-5743093
E-MAIL tse@my.nthu.edu.tw
WEBSITE www.tse.nthu.edu.tw
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